Sit in your mother's house
Text/Li Qiangguo
A few days ago, I listened to "Back to My Mother's Home" on Douyin, and a few old people came in the door, I boiled tea and handed them water, asked long and short questions, and wanted to hear the original northern Shaanxi dialect from their mouths and feel their preserved living language. I am often impressed by the simplicity and kindness of the old people in the countryside.
The old people drank tea and smoked cigarettes, but they also let go and said nothing, and one of them was an old man surnamed Xue who said that he sang me a mountain song of "Sitting Niang Ke". I recorded the lyrics he sang:
Pick up a basket and cut a few catties of meat
Filled with dried noodles and stuffing, poured on a bottle of millet wine
Grab eight taels of good dry tobacco and pull on a five-foot white market cloth
Pinch the color of the needle and put a piece of oacock ice on the tofu
It is difficult to catch pigs and babies with charcoal
The donkey carrying the goods went down the ridge and there was a ditch
Carrying a doll on her back and holding a doll is my handsome daughter-in-law born in Baige
People sitting in their mother's house can't have empty hands
This daughter-in-law who sits in her mother's house has a lot of gifts, such as food and clothing, and everything that can be loaded, as if she is moving. The singer said that this song was sung a long time ago, and he learned it from his grandfather. It's a pity that I forgot to record his mailing address, which is the name of the town and village, and my name, as well as his phone number. Maybe he still has a lot of Xintianyou worth recording in his belly.
This poem not only reflects the living conditions of people at that time, but also reflects the optimistic spirit of people, and at the same time contains the praise of traditional filial piety thoughts, and the most important thing is to treat the intuitive words in the language used to buy things in life.
Buying meat is said to cut meat, buying wine is to pour wine, buying dry tobacco is to catch morning tobacco, buying cloth is to pull cloth, buying needlework color and other things is called pinching, buying ice is called beating ice cream, the role of ice is to order tofu, buying charcoal is called hanging charcoal, buying rice is called measuring rice, buying pig baby is called catching pigs.
This ballad should have been hummed casually by folk people in the fifties and sixties of the last century. There are several different terms of "buying" that are indicative, and the object of the purchase is specified in detail. I have not only seen these scenes of life, but I have also experienced a lot.
My old friend Tuo Yi has written a lot of articles about tofu blocks, all of which are rich in knowledge, and one of them has written words in place of the word "buy", which is consistent with the words used instead of buying words in this Xintianyou.
Buying meat is called cutting meat, and in a more detailed way, when buying pork, you can say that you can say that you cut a piece of meat on the (len), and when you buy mutton, you can say that you cut a piece of meat, which is cut off by the buyer's finger and weighed.
In fact, at that time, the vinegar, sauce, sesame oil, kerosene, and liquids that were bought from one container to another were poured instead of buying. Pour wine, vinegar, sauce, and you can also use typing instead of buying words. Inverted words and typing can show the process of buying. The finger is a container spoon, and this iron spoon is made of one catty, half a catty, and one or two.
Buying dry tobacco is said to catch dry tobacco, and buying Chinese medicine in a Chinese medicine shop is also said to be catching medicine, which is taken directly in the storage container by hand.
Buy cloth and say that the cloth is pulled, the corresponding linen and cotton thread spun good cloth, measure the required size with a ruler, cut the gap on the edge of the cloth with scissors, and tear it off by hand, because the cloth is interwoven with warp and weft, and there will be no error in the size of the cloth that is torn off. I have watched the movie "The White-Haired Girl", in which Yang Bailao pulled the red head rope for Xi'er, and the lyrics included "Pull the two-foot red head rope, and I will tie it up for my Xi'er." "
Pinch has a meaning of unsteady hands and feet, which refers to small human eyes. But when buying things on the street (gai), pinching also replaces the meaning of buying. In the past, the cloth was all old white cloth woven on the loom, and before the tailor wore clothes, he bought some needles, cones, tweezers, silk threads and colors for dyeing cloth at the small shop. Pick and pinch both mean to buy.
Playing with ice and tofu, now I walk to the snack stall, play a bowl of black powder, a bowl of cold powder, a bowl of bowls, this is the meaning of buying. When the people had a new word, called, come to a bowl of black powder, come to half a catty of pig's head meat, and come to an oil swirl, which also replaces buying words. At that time, people also used a word instead of buying a word, to boil mutton, to celery, to the skeleton of the sheep. For the seller also cried out, "If you don't want it, how much do you want?" If you don't give it away for nothing, what will you want in the mouth of the seller? How much will it be?
Buying charcoal is called hanging charcoal, and buying grass (grain grass) for cattle and donkeys is called hanging hay. Regardless of whether it is hay or charcoal, when weighing, the charcoal straw is tied with a rope, and the bundled charcoal or hay is hooked with a hook that carries the scale, and the two people carry the scale to weigh it. Directly draw the scene of the transaction with a hanging letter. My home is on the river, and in late autumn, some people go to the Sichuan field to hang cabbage, and the weight is also used to carry the scale
In the past, instead of pointing out the weight of all the grain, the volume of the grain was measured in three containers: bucket, liter, and combined.
Buying a pig baby is called catching a pig baby. Fifty years ago, it was said that March 28 was a mule and horse conference, and when you went to the sheep market in the city, you would get a few sheep that were lacking, and as long as you fed them for a month or two, the sheep's coat color would become brighter, and the dead skin would be removed, and you would be able to make a few small profits by selling them. Go out and get two yellow grass chickens to make up for the confinement doll girl. In many cases, writing is used instead of buying words. Of course, for people who don't do their jobs, getting sometimes means stealing.
Before the Chinese New Year, I went to the city to buy New Year's goods, uncovered some hemp paper and five-color paper on the stalls, cut window flowers, and wrote Spring Festival couplets. Hemp paper pasted windows, window grilles pasted in the pane, and spring couplets pasted on the doors. Buying and unfurling are both meanings of buying.
In 1983, when the kilogram scale just appeared, I asked the nail scale man in Shijiawan Village to nail the rod kilogram scale for me.
There is also a word for salutation, which sometimes expresses the meaning of buying, such as buying spices called symmetry. In the past, farmers raised silkworm babies, put silkworm cocoons into boiling water pots to boil silk embryos, use silk embryos to put shoe uppers, and buy silk embryos called silk embryos. These are expensive products, the price is large, the amount bought is small, and the weight is weighed by a scale.
Rural people do red and white affairs, ask a consul in charge, the consul will list a single sheet of all the items needed for the matter, and then hand over the list to the victim's family, so that they can go to the city to prepare all the items they need. This is also meant to be bought here. When buying on behalf of others, there must be a variety of things to buy.
Now everything is simplified, and a buy word is used instead, but those image trading scenes and various different life atmospheres are missing.
In a song Xintianyou, so much life knowledge is presented.
My woman's maiden family is in the countryside, there are twelve sisters, she is eleven, and the sister is seven, and she is the one who has been studying for a long time among the sisters, and she graduated from high school. On the 24th day of the first month of 1981, he married me. Later, I was engaged in small business, and I was only responsible for making money. I remember the old-timers said that a man is a rake, a woman is a plate, and what a man scratches back must be put on a plate with a guarantee (insurance), and he has not been chopped. It can be said that the women in my family are filial and obedient, and they go to their parents' house many times, and every time they go, they bring a lot of food and clothing. Before the Chinese New Year, she hired the old rice of the rice family to pull heavy objects such as charcoal and cabbage and white flour on a mule cart, and pushed her bicycle by herself, and seasonings such as meat, meat and wine, as well as oil and salt.
In 1984, I was already a family of four, and I was running around in Xichuan for a year to sell sheepskins, and my wife was working on two dolls and farming, but she never delayed sitting in her mother's house. For this reason, I wrote a poem for her "Sitting in My Mother's House":
It's been a few days
She was homesick
Miss her parents
She carries the dick on her back
On the back seat of the bike sits the boss
There is meat and tofu on the front shelf
There was also a basket of fresh vegetables
Those two half-sleeved shirts
and a flock of smoke
Hang on the handlebars
She's busy
The crops in the mountains are inseparable from her
The pigs and sheep in the pen can't do without her
The flower dog who cares for the house can't do without her
And the chickens that lay eggs
Always giggling
I want to talk to her
She walked like this on the dirt road in the countryside
She's so young
He was only twenty-five years old
She thought about her man
The scrawny man
Wind and rain at the market in Nishikawa
Selling sheepskins
Could it be that Dar is uncomfortable
Stumble along
Don't have a short length
The sun was shining
Beads of sweat rolled down her face
She thought about her man
She thought about her home
She thought about her parents
She walked on a dirt road in the countryside
I write about sitting in my mother's house is just a topic, I mainly write about the past life, now it is different, sitting in my mother's house has changed my mouth to returning to my mother's home, and the village is popular to hold the old and young female guests to return to their parents' home, showing the new era of new life and new style, recalling and inheriting and carrying forward the kind and simple folk customs, singing about the new life.
2024.3.13
About author:Li Qiangguo, male, from Wuliwan Village, Zhangjiatou Town, Suide County, Shaanxi Province, born in the countryside on December 17, 1957, is a farmer, fond of poetry and writing, and occasionally works are published.